HUAWEI Announces The End of its Association with the Android OS Starting Next Year

Huawei HarmonyOS: Huawei is officially bidding farewell to Android as its smartphones and tablets will run on a completely separate operating system from next year, named HarmonyOS NEXT.

Huawei HarmonyOS To Take Over Android In The Chinese Market 

This is a proprietary distributed operating system developed by the company to support only native apps and it marks its first fully self-developed mobile operating system.

The new Mate 70 smartphone, which starts at 5,499 yuan ($760), features the HarmonyOS Next operating system, which no longer supports Android-based apps. It’s touted as a “pure-blooded” technology developed solely by Huawei’s engineers.

“This is our most powerful phone (in the Mate series),” Richard Yu, the chairman of Huawei’s consumer business, said during the Tuesday launch event. “We now have Huawei HarmonyO. We have always been copied but never surpassed.”

From next year, all of Huawei’s new phones and tablet devices would run on its operating system, he added.

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Mate 70 Series To Take The Phone Market By A Storm 

The company is a week away from seeing how its Mate 70 series is received by the public, with all eyes on the sales count. There will be three devices with the Huawei HarmonyOS – the Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, and Mate 70 Pro+.

The standard device, along with the Pro, will come in Black, White, Green, and Purple colors with 12 GB RAM. Storage will be either 256 GB, 512 GB, or 1 TB.

The Mate 70 Pro+ will come in Black and White with different color finish options like Gold and Sky Blue. 

This will be available with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB or 1 TB storage.